Tag Archives: Mobile Design
SVG & Mobile
November 30, 2007, by ronan
It has always surprised me that the mobile industry has not made better use of SVG. On the face of it, SVG is perfectly suited to publishing rich content on mobile devices for a number of reasons:It is a compact way of representing vector graphicsSVG graphics (in keeping with the name) can be scaled to arbitrary sizes, removing some of issues with screen dimension proliferation on mobile devices... Read More
The worst practices of the mobile web.
August 15, 2007, by Cyril
It's more usual to give good examples and best practices, but since I'm visiting and analyzing .mobi websites, and I have seen so many bad things, I decided take the snake by the tail. Feel free to avoid these worst practices. At the head of the hall of shame, I claim... Read More
Web Developer’s Guide released
March 9, 2007, by ronan
I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web developement. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further... Read More
dotMobi Mobile Web Developer’s Guide
March 8, 2007, by ronan
I am proud to announce we recently posted the dotMobi Mobile Web Developer's Guide on mobiForge. This is quite a comprehensive guide to mobile web development. It layers on the advice from the W3C's Mobile Web Initiative Mobile Web Best Practices 1.0 document, but takes it further... Read More
The Importance of Mobile Pre-Emptive Navigation
February 5, 2007, by admin
One thing that often tends to get forgotten in the information architecture of mobile sites is pre-emptive navigation - essentially giving the site the intelligence to guess where you're likely to go and build a shortcut for you. Why is this important? Well, hierarchical navigation trees are all very fine and dandy, but if you have to return to the server to fetch the next sub menu seven or eight times before getting to the content you want, you're probably not going to bother. Other than having to wait for deck after deck to load, data charges are just too high to comfortably spend on downloading intermediary menus... Read More
